Jack and Joan they think no ill,But loving live, and merry still;...Do their week-days' work, and prayDevoutly on the holy day;Skip and trip it on the green,And help to choose the Summer Queen;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you ...one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mo Williams: Some people peddle apples, lamb chops, lumber. I peddle information. Skip ain't sorry; he understands. We live in a d...ifferent kind of world. Oh, once in a while he gets a little hot under the collar if I sell him short.Candy: But you wouldn't sell him to a Commie!Mo Williams: What do you think I am, an informer?!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The most condensed format of the conversionist motif is the TV commercial, which has become essential to both network and religiou...s broadcasting. Embedded in its structure are sentiments from our religious and political heritage: salvation and choice. Newness of life can now be associated with a change of heart about politics, the purchase of a new car, or the selection of a beverage. A Pepsi commercial, for example, designed to fit the charismatic personality and gifts of singer Michael Jackson, became an invitation to make a decision and join in. Images and sounds of the soft-drink ad drew viewers into a growing throng of happy, dancing people following the steps of a dynamic cultural hero. Even couch potatoes might have been roused, vicariously at least, to skip lightly behind the agile Jackson as he led his ecstatic followers to the right choice. The conversionist call in this instance is to come on up to the good life through Pepsi. Nonetheless it plays upon the persuasive motifs of turning around and becoming a part of something larger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer.T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough.Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev.Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you... read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We are playing with fire when we skip the years of three, four, and five to hurry children into being age six.... Every child has ...a right to his fifth year of life, his fourth year, his third year. He has a right to live each year with joy and self-fulfillment. No one should ever claim the power to make a child mortgage his today for the sake of tomorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »